“Weak” AGN Feedback in a Galactic Nucleus (Isolated Disk)

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This movie illustrates relatively “weak” AGN feedback. A BH lives in a disk-dominated galaxy, with a relatively small mass compared to the galaxy baryonic mass (1/10,000, like the Miky Way). It turns on and blows an accretion-disk wind, which carves the central ‘hole’ but then escapes relatively efficiently. Green is warm ionized gas, magenta is cold atomic+molecular gas, red hot (>1e6 K) diffuse gas. While the hole is more than large enough to regulate the BH growth itself, material ‘vents’ in the polar direction without doing too much damage to the disk, and all the fast outflows are hot and diffuse. Made by Paul Torrey.

© Philip Hopkins 2015